Sunday, October 6, 2024

Stand out moments

NAJA: Welcome everyone. I think this is the first time we've had everyone from Curation, Engagement, Social, SEO, Weekend Planning, In Depth, Global, Marketing, Branding, Growth and Youth together - and I hope you can all hear me in the overspill room. Sam, what's your Winning The Weekend highlight for us ?

SAM: We're doing good business with the new fourth rail, "Weekend Playlist - watch our picks of stand-out moments from the iPlayer." There's Hugh Grant, James Bay, the coat-hanger woman, Camilla Cabello, Paddy and Chris, a clip from Industry, Yasmin Finney and a call to download the iPlayer app. 

Bill's notes: The Hugh Grant clip is from Graham Norton on Friday 4th October It's a one-minute tale of an after-dinner party. Most other news outlets chose the bit where he said the new Bridget Jones' film has sad elements. Later BBC Culture reporter Noor Nanji wrote that story up on Saturday, but there's no link between the two pieces. 

James Bay is from Friday's edition of The One Show, in which he re-tells a story of an American musician saying one of his songs reminds him of The Beatles. 

The coat hanger woman is professional de-clutterer Dilly Carter turning coat hangers round to tell which clothes you actually 'use', taken from an unnamed repeat episode of Sort Your Life Out.

Camilla Cabello told The One Show on Monday 30th September that she had been to pubs when she lived in London, and that her new album was about Miami. The One Show clipped it on their Facebook page on Tuesday. 

Paddy and Chris screaming on a roller coaster was clipped on BBC Morning Live on Friday 27th September, and posted on Morning Live's Facebook page that day. The show was transmitted on Sunday 29th September. 

The clip from Industry is rather threatening in an Andrew-Tate-sort-of-way, with two men shouting "I'm a man, and I'm relentless".  It's a shorter version of a clip pushed by BBC and BBC iPlayer on Friday (it avoids the word 'pussy').  Around the world, it's been a mini-meme since this series went out on HBO in August. 

The Yasmin Finney clip is from The One Show on Thursday, pushed out on Facebook by the programme that same day; she talks about fellow actors on Dr Who playing word games during breaks in filming.

The last clip is a 4 second screen suggesting we download the BBC iPlayer app now. 

All the clips lie unchanged between Saturday and Sunday. Most other outlets have moved on. This is lazy, poor quality, low common denominator padding, unthought out, and, because News is frightened of leading you to a licence-fee encircled iPlayer, the benefit back to the wider BBC is, er, nil.  



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